Where: Anatolia, Turkey (39.4° N, 33.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 33.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kizilirmak Formation, MN 12 (7.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• Late Miocene, Middle Turolian, MN 12
•the Akkasdagi tuff is Ar/Ar dated at 7.1 +/- 0.1 (Antoine and Saraç 2005)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN
Collection methods: bulk,
• apparently only describes new collections; previously collected material is in the Natural History Museum of Paris.
Primary reference: N. Kazanci, S. Sen, G. Seyitoglu, L. Bonis, G. Bouvrain, H. Araz, B. Varol and L. Karadenizli. 1999. Geology of a new Late Miocene mammal locality in central Anatolia, Turkey. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 329(7):503-510 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60534: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.05.2006, edited by John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Tubulidentata indet. Huxley 1872 aardvark | |
Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917 proboscidean | |
Adcrocuta cf. eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
Hyaenotherium wongi hyaena | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse "hipparions": reported by earlier workers as Hipparion gracile
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Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
Stephanorhinus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros
Acerorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros | |
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
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Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937 antelope
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle "gazelle" compared to G. pilgrimi, G. capricornis, and G. deperdita
Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope | |
Schizogalerix atticus hedgehog | |
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel | |
cf. Occitanomys provocator de Bruijn 1976 mouse | |
Byzantinia sp. de Bruijn 1976 mouse
Byzantinia cf. hellenicus Freudenthal 1970 mouse | |
Spalacidae indet. Gray 1821 mouse |